Reforming the World Trading System

Legitimacy, Efficiency, and Democratic Governance

Edited by Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann
With the assistance of James Harrison

Description

This volume provides discussion and policy recommendations by leading WTO negotiators and policy-makers, and analysis by leading economists, political scientists and trade lawyers on the major subjects of the Doha Round negotiations. Over 30 contributors explore the complexity of the world trading system and of the WTO negotiations for its reform from diverse political, economic and legal perspectives.

Reforming the World Trading System

Legitimacy, Efficiency, and Democratic Governance

Edited by Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann
With the assistance of James Harrison

Table of Contents

Foreword, Carlo TrojanNotes on ContributorsList of AbbreviationsI WTO Negotiators and Academics Analyze the Doha Development Round of the WTO Overview and Summary of the Book, Ernst-Ulrich PetersmannII The Doha Development Round and the Future of the WTO: Policy Proposals 1. The Doha Development Agenda: Political Challenges to the World Trading System - A Cosmopolitan Perspective, Peter Sutherland2. A Development Perspective on the WTO July 2004 General Council Decision, Faizel Ismael3. Cordell Hull, the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act and the WTO, Kenneth W. DamIII Building-Blocks for Concluding the Doha Round Negotiations on Agriculture 4. How to Forge a Compromise in the Agricultural Negotiations?, StefanTangermann5. The Agricultural Negotiations: The Road from Doha and How to Keep the Negotiations on a Positive Track, Stuart Harbinson6. Strategic Use of WTO Dispute Settlement Proceedings for Advancing WTO Negotiations on Agricultural Subsidies, Ernst-Ulrich PetersmannIV The Doha Round Negotiations on Services Trade 7. Developing Country Proposals for the Liberalization of Movements of Natural Service Suppliers, L. Alan Winters8. Navigating Between the Poles: Unpacking the Debate on the Implications for Development of GATS Obligations Relating to Health and Education Services, J. Anthony VanDuzer9. Negotiations on Domestic Regulation and Trade in Services (Article VI GATS): A Legal Analysis of Selected Current Issues, Joel P. TrachtmanVLess-Developed WTO Members in the Doha Round Negotiations 10. Operationalizing the Concept of Policy Space in the WTO: Beyond Special and Differential Treatment of Developing Countries, Bernard Hoekman11. Can WTO Technical Assistance and Capacity-Building Serve Developing Countries?, Gregory Shaffer12. Developing Countries Interests and Negotiation Positions on Protection of Geographical Indications and Traditional Knowledge, Marion Panizzon and Thomas CottierVI Are WTO Rules Adequately Protecting Consumer Welfare? 13. Come Together? Producer Welfare, Consumer Welfare and WTO Rules, Petros Mavroidis14. Non-Discrimination, Welfare Balances and WTO Rules: An Historical Perspective, Patrick Messerlin15. Is There a Need for Additional WTO Competition
Rules Promoting Non-Discriminatory Competition Laws and Competition Institutions in WTO Members?, François Souty16. Are the Competition Rules in the WTO TRIPS Agreement Adequate?, Frederick M. Abbott17. Investment and the Doha Development Agenda, Bijit Bora and E..M.GrahamVII Challenges to the Political Legitimacy of the WTO System 18. The "Human Rights Approach to International Trade" Advocated by UN Human Rights Bodies and by the International Labour Organization: Is it Relevant for WTO Law and Policy?, Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann19. Parliamentary Oversight of WTO Rule-Making: The Political, Normative and Practical Contexts, Gregory Shaffer20. How Can Parliamentary Participation in WTO Rule-Making and Democratic Control Be Made More Effective in the WTO? A
United States Congressional Perspective, David Skaggs21. How Can Parliamentary Participation in WTO Rule-Making and Democratic Control Be Made More Effective? The European Context, Meinhard Hilf22. A Parliamentary Dimension to the WTO - More than Just a Vision?, Erika Mann23. A Few Thoughts on Legitimacy, Democracy and the WTO, James Bacchus24. The WTO and Cosmopolitics, Steve Charnovitz25. Transparency, Public Debate and Participaton by NGOs in the WTO: A WTO Perspective, Julio A. LacarteVIII WTO Decision-Making Procedures, 'Member-Driven' Rule-Making and WTO Consensus Practices: Are They Adequate? 26. Improving the Capacity of WTO Institutions to Fulfil their Mandate, Richard Blackhurst and David Hartridge27. Chairing a WTO Negotiation,
John S. Odell28. Are WTO Decision-Making Procedures Adequate for Making, Revising and Implementing Worldwide and 'Plurilateral' Rules?, Claus-Dieter Ehlermann and Lothar Ehring29. Is There a Need for Restructuring the Collaboration Among the WTO and UN Specialized Agencies so as to Harness their Complementarities?, Gary Sampson30. Can the WTO Dispute Settlement System Deal with Competition Disputes?, Claus-Dieter Ehlermann and Lothar Ehring

Reforming the World Trading System

Legitimacy, Efficiency, and Democratic Governance

Edited by Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann
With the assistance of James Harrison